Octagonal Sighting System
Detonics Octagonal Sighting System Design
The Detonics Octagonal Sighting System has it roots from the sight tracker barrels competition shooters introduced over a decade ago. Professional competition shooters are scored in a combination of the time to complete a course, along with their precision accuracy. Thus, maintaining front sight picture to attain X-ring precision is central to success.
Incredibly, professional competition shooters develop the ability to “see” the front sight/blade move the length of the slide’s cycle. The movement of the front sight disrupts their sight picture, triggering the idea to embed a front sight into the front of the barrel. To accommodate the front sight, the top of the slide is notched to allow for the fitting of the front sight/blade.
Detonics embraced the sight tracker concept, and enhanced the design through our CNC business model. The Detonics (patent pending) OSS barrel featuring an octagonal design and the embedded front sight based from which the front blade is staked. The barrel and front sight base is produced by a CNC machine from a single piece of bar stock making the shearing potential impossible, unless someone takes the barrel out of the gun and intentionally takes a hammer and chisel to the front sight. We enhanced this design by creating a 3-sided nest in which the front sight base resides. The nest has about five thousands of an inch of free space (about the thickness of a single sheet of paper) between the 2 outside edges of the front blade, and 25,000 between the back of the blade and the front sight base. Therefore, shearing is impossible unless someone takes the barrel out of the gun and intentionally takes a hammer and chisel to the front sight.
Because of the patent-pending octagonal barrel with enhanced barrel lockup, weapon accuracy has increased.. A new recoil spring system designed to spread the slide recoil forces into the frame of the weapon helping to reduce muzzle rise. Detonics Evolution series firearms have had the 1 degree drop between the rear of the barrel to the muzzle removed. This characteristic caused a 4-inch drop in a bullet at 25 yards, while also increasing felt recoil.
The design features combined to controls muzzle rise distributes and softened the felt recoil, enhancing the shooting experience and eliminating much of the discomfort of shooting large caliber weapons. These features also combine to collectively enhance precision combat accuracy.
Enhanced Lockup:
A traditional 1911 has 6 points of lockup; three points on the end of the muzzle, two lug rings and the hood of the barrel.
The Combat Master Evolution has 11 points of lockup; 7 on the end of the muzzle through the 7 planes of the octagon barrel, two oval locking lugs that reset into the slide, and the entire hood of the barrel.